Another alternative to passwords is about to get a look. A company called EyeLock will soon release a $280 device for home and work PCs that lets you glance into a camera to log in to websites and desktop software or to unlock your computer.
The device, called Myris, uses the unique pattern of your irises to verify your identity. Its record of what your irises look like is stored in encrypted form in secure hardware inside the device, which can store credentials for up to five people.
Much of the public dialogue about venture capital returns is based more on myth than fact, which reinforces inappropriately limited views of relative sector attractiveness, underlying risk profiles, and the “business models” that work in venture. A big part of the problem is that anecdotal stories about great returns drive much of the thinking. Another big contributor is that detailed venture data is hard to find and relatively few large datasets have been explored extensively.
La constructora ACS prevé reducir su deuda a alrededor de 4.000 millones de euros este año, desde los 5.872 millones que contabilizaba en septiembre, gracias a desinversiones en activos no principales, entre otras iniciativas.
Según ha explicado hoy el director general corporativo del grupo, Ángel García Altozano, en una conferencia con analistas, el objetivo es bajar la deuda a unos 4.000 millones. "Esperamos llegar a ese nivel" objetivo, ha apuntado.
GE opened its Brazil Technology Center in Rio de Janeiro today. The $500 million research hub will focus on developing advanced technologies for offshore oil and gas exploration and production.
The center, GE’s first in Latin America, will employ 400 researchers by the end of the decade. They will work with Petrobras, Statoil, BG Group and other GE customers in the region on solving engineering challenges such as drilling 40,000-foot deep wells 100 miles off shore, and processing oil and gas 10,000 feet below the sea level, in an alien world dominated by darkness and crushing pressures.
Des chercheurs de l'institut Alfred Wegener de Potsdam (AWI, Brandebourg) ont publié dans un article de la revue américaine "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" les résultats de leur étude de la température de l'eau depuis -5000 av J.-C. Il apparaît que les valeurs de la température des mers fournies par les modèles climatiques utilisées jusqu'ici divergent par rapport aux données obtenues via ce que l'on appelle les "archives climatiques". Celles-ci correspondent à l'ensemble des moyens indirects qui permettent de remonter aux informations climatiques de périodes au-delà du XIXe siècle, date à laquelle les premières mesures de température sont disponibles.
Though diabetes treatment and prevention have improved in recent years, EU member states are too slow when it comes to proper implementation and monitoring of policies. This means that Europe is losing the battle against the growing diabetes epidemic, according to a new study.
It looks so easy from the outside. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s.
But now there is evidence that venture-backed start-ups fail at far higher numbers than the rate the industry usually cites.
About three-quarters of venture-backed firms in the U.S. don't return investors' capital, according to recent research by Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School.
Los inversores aceleran su desbandada de Abengoa, el valor estrella del Ibex en 2014 hasta hace dos meses. Después de desinflarse ayer un 18%, hoy llega a hundirse más de un 30%. La empresa ha emitido un hecho relevante a la CNMV en el que intenta aclarar un "malentendido" sobre su deuda.
Although there are no scientific grounds to ban fracking, shale gas will do little to solve Europe’s energy supply security problems, according to a new report by the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC).
Best practices have “greatly reduced the environmental footprint of shale gas fracturing,” the EASAC said, claiming that risks can be appropriately managed.
These include the replacement of potentially harmful chemicals and the full disclosure of all the additives used in the hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – process, notes the report published on Thursday (13 November).
A new kind of battery that stores energy from solar and wind power cheaply and cleanly has hit the market. It is by far the cheapest of a new generation of large, long-lived batteries that could make it possible to rely heavily on intermittent, renewable energy sources.
Aquion Energy, a company spun out of Carnegie Mellon University, recently delivered the first of its batteries to operators of small power grids, or “microgrids,” that can operate independently of the centralized grid.
